Sentenced to
life, served in Wakefield prison, then transferred to
Broadmoor.

March 1996,
Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe was assaulted by Paul
Wilson. Then, a prisoner at the high-security Broadmoor
hospital in Berkshire, a robber with a nasty streak.
He almost garrotted Sutcliffe with the flex from a pair of
stereo headphones because he "resented being locked up
with sex offenders". The attacker was pulled off by two
other murderers, Kenneth Erskine,
the "Stockwell Strangler," and Jamie Devitt.